Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Where will it end?

Sorry for the bombardment of writing on one day, it's just been one of those days, I need to write. In one day I've read about the trial of the father raping and enslaving his daughter in Austria for 18 years,(yes I read about it before) and pleading non-guilty to enslavement. Perhaps I misunderstood the the definition of enslavement, but locking someone either physically or mentally in a room with no means of escape is enslavement. Sorry but I do not believe he was mentally not stable. But a man who viewed his daughter as property and enjoyed the power he had over her. Next, is the 17 year old boy in Germany who shoots his friends. Still, those video games and spending all your time in front of the computer doesn't have a bad influence?? I know it's cliche and I'm sure everybody has heard this thousands of times yet how do these kids learn to communicate what they feel? They are never given the opportunity to learn how to express them, or deal with rejection, or hormones. Everything is instant gratification, expressions of love, hate, sex is all violent. There is no softness! before even in pornography there was playboy and "soft porn" where you had the illusion of softness and really "making love" not just thrusting and taking what you wanted. What is love nowadays? I would love to ask some teenagers what their opinion of love is. A few years ago, on the plane I read an article about a woman in Pakistan who was gang raped by men in retaliation for her 12 year old brother raping a girl. This is normal and there were hundreds of such cases but no one mentioned anything. However she doesn't kill herself but fights against these acts, she speaks out, amongst death threats and opens a school for girls. This in itself is a tragedy, however what I find even more pathetic/ironic/sad, is that her brother was actually sodomized, and he was innocent. These were two innocent youngsters, who were forced to endure rape and then be blamed for them. What kind of humanity is this? Then there are the more tragi/comic situations as in more remote parts of Russia, where the unemployment level has reached such heights that people have resorted to selling their blood.
IHT article, "Workers," he says as he fills in forms at the employment center, "are losing a lot." The city's blood bank, meanwhile, is doing brisk business. Donations are up by 15 percent as the unemployed queue to earn as much as $28 (€22) for their blood. "People have no means of support, so naturally they're coming to us," says chief doctor Anatoly Voronin.
Iht again,In New Zealand, it seems that prostitution is both legal and thriving. Women are resorting to the oldest profession because as one women pointed out they have "sex, money and men". It's hard to argue really especially when they make around 200 dollars an hour in a very clean establishment. I would never argue against it to begin with, if it's their choice and they are not being forced, it's perfectly fine, but still, I find the world difficult to understand at times. Sometimes, I feel like sticking my head in the sand like an ostrich. Despite all this I am not pessimistic,(well not always) just baffled, and some situations hit closer to home then others.

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